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Bug#920047: glibc: CVE-2016-10739: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing characters



Package: glibc
Version: 2.28-5--src
Severity: normal
Tags: patch security upstream
Forwarded: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20018
Control: found -1 2.24-11+deb9u3
Control: found -1 2.24-11

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for glibc.

CVE-2016-10739[0]:
| In the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) through 2.28, the getaddrinfo
| function would successfully parse a string that contained an IPv4
| address followed by whitespace and arbitrary characters, which could
| lead applications to incorrectly assume that it had parsed a valid
| string, without the possibility of embedded HTTP headers or other
| potentially dangerous substrings.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10739
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-10739
[1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20018

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore


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